"Picture a beautiful young woman racing down the freeway in a classic red Corvette with a distrustful Julius Caesar riding shotgun...A wild ride from start to finish." —Booklist MagazineA time-travel thriller in which a secret experiment brings Julius Caesar from the Ides of March to 1999 California—until a kidnapping plot puts history itself at risk.When 20-something Cassandra Fleury is invited to join an elite team of classicists...

When two cons doing several respective back-to-back life sentences for murder make a daring—if not Hollywood-style—escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in upstate New York, PI Jack Marconi receives a personal invitation from the governor of New York State to track the murderers down and deliver them personally to the front door of the governor’s mansion.But what Marconi and his sidekick, Blood, don’t yet realize is that something more insidious than a simple prison bre...

One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and conventions of an old European aristocracy (think of Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove and others). The aptly named Christopher Newman, having made a small fortune from business in California, has come to the Old World for the first time, determin...

To see a program successfully through to completion, a program manager must break the work down into simpler, smaller pieces and organize it into interdependent tasks…and this book helps you do just that.Projects require managers, but programs warrant maestros. Tasked with overseeing multiple project teams and thousands of activities, program managers have one of the most challenging jobs in the market. Too many overburdened managers are leaving otherwise great job...

Steve thinks he made the right choice turning down a snowy week with his cousins at a cabin in northern Ontario in favor of a relaxing (and perhaps romantic) time under the Spanish sun with his friend, Laia. But when an email from his brother DJ arrives, implicating their grandfather in some shadowy international plots involving nuclear bombs, Steve and Laia immediately put aside all thoughts of a lazy, sun-drenched vacation. In a desperate attempt to find out if Steve’s grandfather was a ...

In the 1990s regulators and policy makers worried about the risk that financial institutions were carrying. Once the walls between investment and commercial banking came down with the repeal of Glass-Steagall, both trading and lending (and everything in between) were now housed under one roof with institutions freely accessing funds from one part of the institution to the other. But Glass-Steagall had just been repealed so how to fix the risk problem? Where there is a problem, there can us...

Respected Christian couples open up about the wisdom that has made the difference in their marriage. Nearly 20 of today’s Christian authors, speakers, and entertainers relay their joys and fears, their triumphs and failures — and the advice that got them through — in this inspiring collection from Focus on the Family. The names of these husbands and wives, like their experiences, will be familiar to anyone who’s ever said, “I do.” But the transforming advice these couples received when the...

Neuromarketing studies the way the brain responds to various cognitive and sensory marketing stimuli. Analysts use this to measure a consumer's preference, what a customer reacts to, and why consumers make certain decisions. This scientific approach to marketing has helped many brands and companies determine how to best market their products to different demographics and consumer groups. Brainfluence explains how to practically apply neuroscience and behavior research to everyday marketing...

According to research by the American Society for Training Belief, and a Plan for salespeople who have struggled to achieve success. o Teaches salespeople to take responsibility for their success o Includes a simple six-step process for goal setting and attainment o Presents core selling and communication methodology based on creating awareness and choice for the client, which results in happier customer relationships.

Steve thinks a trip to Europe is out of the question—until he hears his grandfather's will. Suddenly he's off to Spain, armed with only a letter from his grandfather that sends him to a specific address in Barcelona. There he meets a girl named Laia and finds a trunk containing some of his grandfather's possessions, including a journal he kept during the time he fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Steve decides to trace his grandfather's footsteps through Spain...

A new generation of leader is emerging, the next generation business strategist: "Outhinkers." They are entrepreneurs and corporate managers with a new playbook. They see opportunities others ignore, challenge dogma others accept as truth, rally resources others cannot influence, and unleash new strategies that disrupt their markets. Outthink the Competition proves that business competition is undergoing a fundamental paradigm shift and that during such revolutions, outthinkers beat tradit...

Well-known Christian moms and dads reveal the words that have mattered most for their family. Whether it’s a crying baby or a rebellious teenager, every parent has moments with their kids that they wish they’d been better prepared to handle — if only they’d known. This audio book, published in conjunction with Focus on the Family, shares heartwarming and vulnerable experiences from well-known moms and dads. Their surprising, sometimes humorous, and always relatable stories of raising kids ...